Shang Kexi (尚可喜) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Shang Kexi as an aristocrat, general, and military officer. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Shang Kexi	尚可喜	Shàng Kěxǐ
Personal	Kexi	可喜
Title	Prince of Pingnan	平南王
Personal name	Shang Kexi	尚可喜	Shàng Kěxǐ
Personal	Shang Kexi	尚可喜
Personal	Shang Kexi	尚可喜	Shang Kexi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0079, qingshigao:274:s0018

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 吳三桂反後 · Western Year: AD 1674
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:252:s0156
Source Date: Text: 康熙初 · Western Year: AD 1662
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:269:s0079
Source Date: Text: 康熙十二年 · Western Year: AD 1673
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:269:s0081
Source Date: Text: 康熙年間 · Western Year: AD 1659
Explicit · qingshigao:274:s0018

Family

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Parent of Shang Zhixin (尚之信)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:274:s0018
Place: Guangdong / 廣東 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0079

Events and relationships

Kind: biographical-event · Action: accepted Fu Honglie and his volunteers into his campaign toward Zhaoqing
Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0156

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0079

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 252Volume 252 Biographies 39: Gan Wenkun, Fan Chengmo, Ma Xiongzhen, Fu Honglie · 1 passage

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弘烈欲集兵圖恢復，陽受三桂偽職，入思州、泗城、廣南、富川諸土司，歷交阯界，募義軍得五千人，遂移檄討賊，從尚可喜軍規肇慶。 Honglie sought to raise troops to recover the province. He outwardly accepted a false commission from Sangui, traveled among the chieftaincies of Sizhou, Sicheng, Guangnan, and Fuchuan, crossed into Annam, and recruited five thousand volunteers. He then issued a proclamation against the rebels and joined Shang Kexi's army in a move on Zhaoqing.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 269Volume 269 Biographies 56: Suo Etu, Ming Zhu · 3 passages

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康熙初，南疆大定，留重兵鎮之：吳三桂雲南，尚可喜廣東，耿精忠福建。 Early in the Kangxi reign the south was pacified but heavily garrisoned: Wu Sangui in Yunnan, Shang Kexi in Guangdong, and Geng Jingzhong in Fujian.

可喜亦憂之，疏請撤籓，歸老海城。 Kexi too grew alarmed and memorialized to surrender his fief and retire to Haicheng.

三桂遂反，精忠及可喜子之信皆叛應之。 Sangui rebelled, and Jingzhong and Kexi's son Zhixin joined him.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 274Volume 274 Biographies 61: Yang Yongjian, Yao Diyu, Zhu Hongzuo, Wang Zhi, Song Luo, Chen Shen · 1 passage

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時平南王尚可喜、靖南王耿繼茂並鎮廣東，雍建疏陳廣東害民之政八：委吏太濫，雜派太繁，裡役無定例，用夫無定制，鹽埠日橫，私稅日盈，伐薪採木，大肆流毒，均宜亟為革除。 At that time the Prince of Pingnan, Shang Kexi, and the Prince of Jingnan, Geng Jimao, both held Guangdong. Yongjian listed eight abuses there: too many petty agents, too many surcharges, village labor service without fixed rules, corvée without fixed quotas, salt franchises growing more oppressive by the day, illicit levies swelling daily, and rampant logging and fuel-cutting—all of which should be abolished at once.